love being a writer. love poring over a single sentence for hours just editing and replacing words until i end up with the exact same sentence i started with - ThreadSky

aligarchy.bsky.social • 226 days ago

love being a writer. love poring over a single sentence for hours just editing and replacing words until i end up with the exact same sentence i started with

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freekids.bsky.social•225 days ago

And then moving onto a different sentence, forgetting it, and then reading it again two months later and going through the exact same process again.

marquemaire.bsky.social•226 days ago

Sounds like my divorce negotiations.

owh.bsky.social•225 days ago

When I write, I go all out, then I stand up and read it out loud. It's mindboggling just how quickly you discover what's worthy of your narrative and what needs to be excised.

cv-danes.com•226 days ago

But in the end you validated the strength of that sentence :-)

dell-adams.bsky.social•226 days ago

That must be affirming. You got it right the first time.

priscillaadelaide.bsky.social•224 days ago

It's so good! And then you go back to it three weeks later and realize that you should've changed a comma!

robinricegreen.bsky.social•224 days ago

That is so true

crstewart.bsky.social•225 days ago

Love overthinking plot points over and over until you get to the point that the point didn't matter and that entire section should be scrapped 🙃

silverfloof424.bsky.social•226 days ago

That's how you know its the best possible sentence you're capable of.

Which for some writers says a lot.

vaiden.bsky.social•226 days ago

oh god are you me this is how my work life is every goddamn day

vaiden.bsky.social•226 days ago

"What did you get done today?"
*sweat*

exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social•225 days ago

love editing it until it makes less and less sense but it has now mutated beyond retrivability

ericalscott.bsky.social•224 days ago

I followed you for the simple reason that you knew how to spell "poring." (As an editor, I have corrected "pouring" about as man time as I've corrected "baited breath.") 😁

erixperience.bsky.social•226 days ago

Spent a good 2 hours trying to come up with far future technobabble and all I came up with was a headache, don't I feel you

jameslonghurst.bsky.social•226 days ago

same, but with commas

aligarchy.bsky.social•225 days ago

i still, struggle with those

agoodcitizen.bsky.social•226 days ago

Full circle!

melastorm.bsky.social•226 days ago

I love editing so much I’ve never finished anything I’ve written.

deeborm.bsky.social•226 days ago

words of theseus

aligarchy.bsky.social•226 days ago

theseusaurus

joshdobbin.bsky.social•225 days ago

A prophetic logical construction: a Sibyl-gism

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lichenglen.bsky.social•226 days ago

comma's... spent days switching a comma in and out of a line ... and still not decided

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